Photos of Irishman shot dead by police in Bolivia show him handling firearms

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Irish Times

Friday, May 1, 2009
Photos of Irishman shot dead by police in Bolivia show him handling firearms

http://www.irishtimes.com.nyud.net:8090/newspaper/images/2009/0501/1224245759380_1.jpg

TOM HENNIGAN in São Paulo

PHOTOGRAPHS IN which the Irishman shot dead by police in Bolivia two weeks ago is seen handling various firearms were shown at a press conference on Wednesday in La Paz by the prosecutor investigating the circumstances surrounding his death.

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Bolivia’s authorities say Mr Dwyer was part of a terrorist group linked with right-wing separatists in the east of Bolivia and planned to assassinate the country’s left-wing president, Evo Morales. On Saturday the prosecutor showed a video which he said showed Mr Dwyer and two other members of the group discussing how to blow up a boat carrying Mr Morales.

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The photos reportedly show Mr Dwyer, Eduardo Rozsa Flores, the suspected leader of the group who also died in the police raid, and Elod Toaso, arrested at the scene, along with two other men that are still being sought by police. It is not known how many guns in total the men had in their possession. At the same press conference, one of the two men arrested in Santa Cruz on Tuesday admitted supplying a weapon to Flores.

Juan Carlos Gueder Bruno said Flores approached him about buying guns and he sold him a weapon for $1,000 (€756). Mr Gueder said Flores told him that he planned to assassinate the prefects (a post equivalent to governor) of Santa Cruz and the neighbouring department of Beni.



Read more: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2009/0501/1224245759380.html

[Judi Lynn]

1. Armed police hold two more in weapons quiz

Armed police hold two more in weapons quiz
By Conor Kane and Gerard Couzens


Thursday April 30 2009

BOLIVIAN police have arrested two more men in connection with an alleged plot to assassinate president Evo Morales.

Armed officers swooped on the pair after being told they had supplied arms to suspects, including Irishman Michael Dwyer (24).

They were being questioned yesterday in the Bolivian capital La Paz after being driven from the city of Santa Cruz where Mr Dwyer was shot dead during a raid on April 16.

Mr Dwyer's body was released to the family following Monday's post-mortem examination by State Pathologist Dr Marie Cassidy.

Initial reports suggested he died as a result of a single shotgun wound to the chest, but the full findings may not be released to the Dwyer family for another 15 weeks.

A cross-party commission of Bolivian politicians is carrying out a probe into the shootings and plot allegations.

One of the men arrested yesterday in relation to the alleged assassination plot was named as 48-year-old Juan Carlos Gueder Bruno, an activist with a militant neo-fascist group based in Santa Cruz called the Santa Cruz Youth Union.

More:
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/armed-police-hold-two-more-in-weapons-quiz-1724044.html

[Judi Lynn]

2. Croat paramilitary troops and mercenary terrorists: Philip Goldberg

Croat paramilitary troops and mercenary terrorists: Philip Goldberg
Dieser Eintrag stammt von HoisseBig Am 21.4.2009 @ 05:08 In Welt News Spezial, Balkan (Englisch)

Bolivians Tear Down a Myth of Croat “Homeland War”
Branko Marinković, Croat tycoon in Bolivia lobbying for dismemberment of the Latin American state, is suspected of planning and organizing a coup attempt, failed after Bolivian security forces foiled a series of planned assassinations by the group of international mercenary terrorists, lead by Eduardo Rozsa Flores, a <4> neo-Nazi war criminal who commanded the “International Brigade” of worldwide psychopaths within the Croat paramilitary troops during the civil war in former Yugoslavia, in the 1990s. Marinković’s close ties with the current U.S. Ambassador Philip Goldberg, called “Ambassador of Ethnic Cleansing” because of his role in dismemberment of Yugoslavia, are also under investigation by the Bolivian officials.

The latest probe into subversive activities of Croat emigration and especially examination of the criminal past and fascist ideology nurtured by the Croat paramilitary troops, including the notorious psychopaths gathered in Croatia’s <5> “International Brigade”, had triggered an uproar of fury in Croatia and in the Croat communities worldwide.

Enraged by the unexpected scrutiny of the myth according to which instigation and fomenting of the civil war in former Yugoslavia in 1991, and subsequent genocide against Serbs in Croatia resulting in ethnically clean state, were all legitimate “actions” and part of the “war of liberation”, Croats have launched a veritable lynch campaign against Bolivian government and everyone who dares question the motives of the “defenders” in Croatia’s latest “homeland war”.

Consequently, following the latest revelations about the involvement of Croat paramilitaries in the assassination attempts of Bolivian state leadership, Croat Foreign Ministry warned it has instructed its representative in Chile, “who also covers Bolivia”, “to closely follow the situation in Bolivia and if necessary, have talks at the Bolivian Foreign Ministry”.

According to Croat media, their government also considers “sending a diplomatic note” to Bolivian state, to urge toning down of the investigation of the true character of all the “wars of liberation” Croatia lead in its short, rather nasty history.

But just in case the shit does hit the proverbial fan this time around, Croat government announced it is ready to distance itself from the mercenaries and psychos it took under its wing during the civil war in the 1990s — those who have unexpectedly found themselves under the unpleasant limelight of public attention:

Croat Tycoon and US Ambassador of Ethnic Cleansing
According to Bolivian media, neo-Nazi mercenaries who have plotted assassination of a number of Bolivian officials (including some opposition leaders) in an attempt to create chaos in Bolivia akin to the one used to dismember former Yugoslavia and tear the country apart, were in all probability hired by “Don Marinković”, tycoon of Croat nationality who lobbies against the state’s socialist government and leads the separatist movement in Santa Cruz, advocating secession of the richest Bolivian provinces.

According to <6> earlier reports, Marinković has close ties with the current U.S. ambassador in Bolivia Philip Goldberg, who was instrumental in fomenting separatist movements in former Yugoslavia.

A year ago, reporter Roberto Bardini offered less known, but entirely <7> illuminating details about Goldberg’s long history of subversive activities and his connections with the main secessionist in Bolivia, Croat Branko Marinković.

More:
http://balkanblog.org/2009/04/21/croat-paramilitary-troops-and-mercenary-terrorists-philip-goldberg/print

[cali]

3. why on earth are you posting this here?

[Judi Lynn]

7. They are involved in a plot to kill Evo Morales. Your threads you start on Chavez DO belong here

but my thread on an assassination plot to kill the elected President of Bolivia, who sent US ambassador Philip Goldberg away, due to his involvement with the racist fascists, one of them an American powerful landowner, in Santa Cruz doesn't belong.

[AlphaCentauri]

4. That looks like a long range rifle

killing leftist it's been a sport in latin america for many years.

[MUAD_DIB]

5. We were discussing this a day or so ago.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=118&topic_id=219716&mesg_id=219716

[AlphaCentauri]

6. Thanks

fascinating info

[Barack_America]

8. That looks like quite a scope. nt

[michreject]

15. It's a normal/regular scope

It just has a sun screen on it. It's removable.

[Judi Lynn]

9. New images on family's black day

New images on family's black day
By Don Lavery

Friday May 01 2009

http://www.independent.ie.nyud.net:8090/multimedia/archive/00315/Guns-01_Indo_315832t.jpg http://www.independent.ie.nyud.net:8090/multimedia/archive/00315/Guns-02_Indo_315834t.jpg

Bolivian authorities chose yesterday -- the day Michael Dwyer was buried -- to release a series of new pictures of Mr Dwyer and his companions armed to the teeth with a variety of weapons.

They show the men, including Mr Dwyer and the alleged leader of the so-called assassination plot, Eduardo Rozsa Flores, in a variety of poses with weapons displayed before the media in a large montage.

In what are sure to prove worrying images, the Tipperary man is shown in one picture wielding a World War 2 Sten submachine gun. In another, he is armed with four semi-automatic pistols, with two tucked down the front of his trousers while he holds another two guns in his hands in a bravado pose. In yet another photograph, which shows off his distinctive shoulder tattoo, Mr Dwyer aims two pistols at the camera.

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The pictures raise questions as to why the group were so heavily armed, where they got the weapons and what they intended to use them for.

More:
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/new-images-on-familys-black-day-1725712.html

[lostnfound]

10. Does anyone know if there is meaning or symbolism in that tattoo?

It looks like a kind of logo.

[Judi Lynn]

12. I'll keep my eyes out. I read several of these mercenaries fought in the same unit in Yugoslavia

and all have the same tattoo. I don't believe Dwyer is one of that group of Yugoslavia fighters, yet I'm not certain.

I'll make sure if I see any word on Dwyer's "tat," I'll post it in this thread.

An important fact which has been mentioned in many articles already is the fact that the US ambassador, Philip Goldberg, (who met privately with members of the Santa Cruz fascist group after hours, if you call 3:00 a.m., "after hours," and this meeting was captured on video tape by a local tv station and broadcast in Bolivia at the time) was, himself, deeply involved in Yugoslavia during the conflagration there, and has been called the "Ambassador of Ethnic Cleansing." _{George W. Bush} sent him to Bolivia when Evo Morales became elected as the first indigenous President.

Here's an article posted earlier today:

Croat paramilitary troops and mercenary terrorists: Philip Goldberg
Dieser Eintrag stammt von HoisseBig Am 21.4.2009 @ 05:08 In Welt News Spezial, Balkan (Englisch)

Bolivians Tear Down a Myth of Croat “Homeland War”
Branko Marinković, Croat tycoon in Bolivia lobbying for dismemberment of the Latin American state, is suspected of planning and organizing a coup attempt, failed after Bolivian security forces foiled a series of planned assassinations by the group of international mercenary terrorists, lead by Eduardo Rozsa Flores, a <4> neo-Nazi war criminal who commanded the “International Brigade” of worldwide psychopaths within the Croat paramilitary troops during the civil war in former Yugoslavia, in the 1990s. Marinković’s close ties with the current U.S. Ambassador Philip Goldberg, called “Ambassador of Ethnic Cleansing” because of his role in dismemberment of Yugoslavia, are also under investigation by the Bolivian officials.

The latest probe into subversive activities of Croat emigration and especially examination of the criminal past and fascist ideology nurtured by the Croat paramilitary troops, including the notorious psychopaths gathered in Croatia’s <5> “International Brigade”, had triggered an uproar of fury in Croatia and in the Croat communities worldwide.

Enraged by the unexpected scrutiny of the myth according to which instigation and fomenting of the civil war in former Yugoslavia in 1991, and subsequent genocide against Serbs in Croatia resulting in ethnically clean state, were all legitimate “actions” and part of the “war of liberation”, Croats have launched a veritable lynch campaign against Bolivian government and everyone who dares question the motives of the “defenders” in Croatia’s latest “homeland war”.

More:
http://machetera.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/the-ambassador-of-ethnic-cleansing/

For more information, see magbana's thread in the Latin America forum:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=405x14614#14620

[ronnie624]

14. The tattoo

looks virtually identical to that sported by about half of the testosterone drenched males between the ages of 18 and 30 that I've encountered in the last 15 or so years. I don't see any symbolism beyond that displayed by most young males who may be insecure about their masculinity. Not much originality, either.

[Judi Lynn]

11. google translation BBC News article: Bolivia: Governors in their sights

Last updated: Friday, May 1, 2009 - 01:14 GMT

Bolivia: Governors in their sights
Mery Vaca

Bolivia



Rózsa said in an interview
that was intended to separate
the region of Santa Cruz.

The alleged terrorists intended to divide Bolivia, also killing two governors seeking autonomy and opposition to the government of Evo Morales, as revealed on Thursday one of the detainees.

The intention, in the words of Juan Carlos Guedes boliviano, was to make martyrs of these political autonomy and create chaos in the country.

According to this version, the victim would be the governors of Santa Cruz, Rubén Costas, and Beni, Ernesto Suárez Sattori.

Guedes was arrested Tuesday in Santa Cruz with Alcides Mendoza. Both were members of the Youth Union Cruceños extreme. They are accused of collaborating with the separatist banda.

Thursday, Guedes said he sold a gun to the leader of that group, the Bolivian-Hungarian-Croatian, Eduardo Rózsa Flores, and confessed having participated in two meetings with the now accused of terrorism.

In one of these meetings, according to Guedes, Rózsa revealed their plans to assassinate the governors.

"I retired from this position, its program that he (Eduardo Rózsa) had capture resources at that meeting when he said he wanted to end the lives of the governor Ruben Costas and Ernesto Suárez Sattori," Guedes said of the Attorney La Paz, where he remains detained.

When he was asked what would be the reason for this assassination, Guedes replied that "at that time (Rózsa) said that a martyr was worth more dead than a cojudo (fool) not doing anything, as my governor."

Evo Morales also
The Bolivian government says that another goal was to assassinate the president Evo Morales.

To support this argument, the prosecutor leading the case, Macel Sosa showed the media a video in which, according to the authority, Rózsa regrets not having an explosive in a boat in which Morales and his cabinet performed a reunion in the waters of Lake Titicaca.

The image and audio of the tape are of poor quality because it is apparently a recording of a cell phone. However, we hear words that lead to the Prosecutor stated that the assassination plan is established.

On April 16, in a police operation, killing the leader of the banda, Eduardo Rózsa, besides the Irish Michael Martin Dwyer Romanian and Hungarian Árpád Magyarosi.

In the same operation were arrested on boliviano-Croatian Mario Tadic Francisco Astorga and Hungarian elodes Tóásó.

This band, according to an interview that was recorded in Rózsa Hungary, sought the separation of the autonomous region of Santa Cruz, if it was not possible to achieve national coexistence.

The interview was given to journalist Andras Kepes in September last year, but was released after the death of Rózsa.

The Bolivian government announced it will initiate legal action against the journalist Kepes, believing he had to withdraw plans Rózsa instead save the video.

Employers and institutions
The prosecution also investigated whether the group had support and financing of businesses and institutions of Santa Cruz linked to the opposition.

So far we have found weapons that belong to suspected terrorist in the telephone company costs, a lawyer for the Chamber of Industry and Commerce of Santa Cruz (CAINCO) was accused of cooperating with the banda and the main accused in a photograph in which is a sign of the Federation of Livestock Santa Cruz (FEGASACRUZ).

The institutions of Santa Cruz has denied ties with these violent acts, but the prosecutor said Marcelo Sosa will have to declare to his authority.

Sosa showed Thursday in the 58 photographs that sees men manipulating arms.

"If you see this photograph here Fegasacruz notes to the fund, which is why they have already said these people to come and give statements," said Sosa noting one of the images.

In addition, the prosecution is following the trail of two other Bolivians who have been members of the group.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/america_latina/2009/05/090430_1930_atentado_gobernadores_irm.shtml

[Judi Lynn]

13. Adding photo of Michael Dwyer and Eduardo Rozsa Flores.

http://www.irishtimes.com.nyud.net:8090/newspaper/breaking/images/2009/0501/229486_1.jpg

"Tipperary man Mike Dwyer pictured with Eduardo Rozsa Flores
in one of several photographs distributed by the Bolivian police"

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0501/breaking51.htm